#Herbert Howells

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Herbert Howells (1892-1983) : String Quartet No. 3 "In Gloucestershire": I. With Easy and Flexible Movement ·

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everyone go listen to this right now

[theweeowlart]

One of my favourite songs has just been played on Radio 3, 'King David' by Herbert Howells. A new recording with Iestyn Davies (counter tenor) . Beautiful song, well worth a listen. Poetry used for the song was by Walter De la Mare.

King David

King David was a sorrowful man: No cause for his sorrow had he; And he called for the music of a hundred harps To ease his melancholy

They played till they all fell silent: Played and play sweet did they; But the sorrow that haunted the heart of King David They could not charm away

He rose; and in his garden Walked by the moon alone A nightingale hidden in a cypress tree Jargoned on and on

King David lifted his sad eyes Into the dark-boughed tree -- "Tell me, thou little bird that singest Who taught my grief to thee?"

But the bird in no-wise heeded; And the king in the cool of the moon Hearkened to the nightingale's sorrowfulness Till all his own was gone

[artisthomes]

Birthplace of Herbert Howells on High Street in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England

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dan holding phils heart is giving re-animator, this is so niche

[arendelve]

did I really call myself a ‘howells girlie’ in front of choir acquaintances / potential friends

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I have been using some dead times these past few weeks to go through/purge my latest Project Gutenberg raids, and there are two funny findings I have made:

1- Patricia Brent, Spinster (1918), by Herbert George Jenkins

In general a run-of-the-mill fake dating romance, short and innoffensive, but here's the thing, for anyone familiar with Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey

The love interest is a lieutenant-colonel Bowen (the story is set in the last year of WWI), wounded in action, D.S.O., M.C. now working at the staff

He's later revealed to be Lord Peter Bowen

He's the second son

His brother holds the title, and his mother, the dowager, is a kind, generous woman with a special link with her second son

Lord Peter has a sister too, Lady Tanagra, who helps the war effort with volunteers

Lord Peter has a man by the name of Peel on the same type as Bunter and Jeeves

Lady Tanagra is in love with a friend of Peter and hers, but nothing has come of it yet because he's of a lower class than her and not rich.

Lord Peter falls in love at first sight with Patricia, and proposes marriage to her many times

She refuses him as many times because of a sense of shameful gratitude and what his family would think

Of course the story and characters are different in several ways, and they are not as charming as Sayers', but the coincidences, the coincidences!

2- The Lonely House (1920) by Marie Belloc Lowndes (sister of Hillaire Belloc)

What I didn't know before downloading this book, is that it is subtitled A Hercules Popeau mystery. Yes, you guessed it, Poirot. But it predates Poirot for a little. The wikipedia page on Poirot puts it this way:

Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired French police officer living in London.[2] Evans' Jules Poiret "was small and rather heavyset, hardly more than five feet, but moved with his head held high. The most remarkable features of his head were the stiff military moustache. His apparel was neat to perfection, a little quaint and frankly dandified." He was accompanied by Captain Harry Haven, who had returned to London from a Colombian business venture ended by a civil war. [3]

But to say that the name was derived is to understate the situation immensely. Popeau has the physical shape, age, and way of talking and dressing of Poirot. Like Poiret, he's French (though still living in France; the plot of this story happens on a vacation he takes to Monte Carlo with... you won't guess... his friend captain Angus Stuart. A Scottish man, who, believe it or not, falls in love at first sight with our fair protagonist!).

Jules Poiret. Hercule Popeau. Hercule Poirot.

And like, wow, we complain about fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, but if you were into reading many novels in 1920s Britain, there were THREE eccentric, short, plump, dandy-ish, French speaking, British captain adopting sleuths around. We'd have three nickels. Historians 1000 years from now would believe there was a significant number of French and Belgian sleuths traveling England and Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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Hi, I wondered about this obvious but puzzling question, did Henry VII speak Welsh?

Hi! There is no evidence per se that he did, but some hints suggest he spoke Welsh to some degree or at least understood it. There is evidence that Herbert's court in Raglan Castle, where Henry was raised from ages 4 to 13, was Welsh-speaking. William Herbert was a great patron of Welsh poets who wrote for his family: a great example is the poem by Hywel Swrdwal in celebration of William Herbert Jr's marriage to Mary Woodville and his knighting by the king at Windsor. According to the Welsh poetry tradition of that time, those poems were made to be read aloud to audiences in a gathering. That specific poet says William Herbert spoke their tongue (translation below):

The stag of noble Raglan is strongest, / A mighty reach, against any mere fawn / No man under his authority / Will take his golden collar away to play with it / The foremost king of Britain and its realm / Gave his sister to him / He held a great wedding-feast in Windsor / For this man, in his royalty / A generous feast for our lord who is of our tongue, / May he be seen again as a prince!*

So Henry VII would have grown up in that kind of Welsh-speaking environment. It's also known that Herbert took Henry with him around Wales, such as the time he besieged Henry's uncle at Harlech and took the boy with him to see his uncle's defeat (awkward......).

Another hint is that Henry had a Welsh nurse whom he rewarded after Bosworth named Joan, wife of Philip ap Howell, who was from Carmarthen, a region that was mostly Welsh-speaking. It's plausible that she would have taught him some Welsh. Less conclusive, there's a Welsh poem that wishes that the young Earl of Richmond would never become a 'Saesnaeg', that is a Saxon, an Englishman. I think the poet could only mean it symbolically, which might suggest Henry grew up in a strong, culturally Welsh, environment.

Thanks to Vergil we know Henry had a formal education in English and Latin, but he doesn't tell us if Henry ever learned Welsh by being raised by Welsh-speaking people (which is likely in my opinion). Judging from his march to Bosworth and how he made use of Welsh prophecies, it's very clear Henry had a strong formation in Welsh culture. In my opinion it's likely that he at least understood some of it.

*‘Urddo Wiliam Herbert Ieuanc yn Farchog o’r badd gan Hywel Swrdwal’; translation by Dr Barry Lewis. Notice how the poet calls Mary Woodville the king's sister. Another interesting detail that I speculate on is that Herbert took Henry to Windsor for that feast, and this is how the Earl of Nottingham was able to say to the pope in 1486 that he knew Henry VII for 20 years.

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Herbert Howells (1892-1983) - I . Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra Op. 15 00:00-10:40 with Andrew Watkinson (violin), Edward Roberts (violin), Matthew Souter (viola) and Shuna Wilson (cello)

II. Serenade for four violins and string orchestra Op. 16 10:40-15:05 with Alison Kelly, Edward Roberts, Erika Klemperer and Michael de Saulles (violins)

Performed by the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox.

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16 and 24 for the song asks, please?

16. One of your favorite classical songs

i’ll do you better and give one of my favorite classical orchestral songs:

and one of my favorite classical choral songs:

i’ve listened to mendelssohn’s arrangement of ave maria for years, ever since i was 15-16 i’d say. it’s always been my favorite rendition of the piece - the full 8-part choir just gives me full body chills every time i listen to it

24. A song by a band you wish were still together

while they’re technically on a hiatus instead of being fully broken up, i will forever love little mix and all their work. one of their favorite songs of mine is:

[muse-write]

Just discovered this piece (from an original work on Ao3 of all places!) and it’s so beautiful and underrated!

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actually kill me